Video: Obama criticizes Romney for politics of Libya statement while headin’ off for campaign fun in Vegas

posted at 5:11 pm on September 12, 2012 by Allahpundit

I kind of like that he’s going through with the campaign rally tonight — held in America’s quintessential vacation destination, no less — just because it helps further expose the media’s fake outrage over Romney’s statement this morning for the concern-trolling fraud that it is. If they really cared as much about “optics” as they pretended to a few hours ago, they’d destroy him over the callousness of a big rally in Sin City while people are wondering what the hell happened yesterday in Libya. There’d be no need to raise points like this:

Had George Bush gone to Vegas for a fundraiser on a day like today, the nat’l political press would be in an uproar.

As it is, Obama’s going to be given a pass from most of the press when he shows up in Vegas tonight for another speech about how righteous his foreign policy record is. Quick question for President Pitching Wedge if he’s not too busy with more important stuff: Did he have reason to know that jihadist groups have been threatening the consulate in Benghazi for months? International correspondents seem to have noticed:

The group suspected to be behind the assault — the Imprisoned Omar Abdul Rahman Brigades — first surfaced in May, when it claimed responsibility for an attack on the International Red Cross office in Benghazi. The following month the group claimed responsibility for detonating an explosive device outside the U.S. Consulate, and later released a video of that attack…

Benotman, who had earlier warned of the likelihood of renewed attacks against U.S. interest in Libya, said the Omar Abdul Rahman Brigades is a prime suspect in the Benghazi attack Tuesday. He believes it is likely the deadly attack was also linked to a video statement released by al-Zawahiri on the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. In the video, al-Zawahiri confirmed the death of al-Libi — a prominent member of the al Qaeda-linked group — adding: “His blood is calling, urging and inciting you to fight and kill the crusaders.”

The video released by the Brigades in June showed nighttime explosions around the consulate, interlaced with footage of Osama bin Laden and al-Zawahiri, along with images from the 9/11 attacks. At the time the Brigades claimed it had launched the attack in response to the first reports of al-Libi’s death in a drone strike in the tribal areas of Pakistan.

Notably, the Brigades said the June 5 attack was also timed to coincide with preparations for the arrival of a senior U.S. State Department official.

Go figure that a jihadist group that had targeted the consulate before might try something on 9/11, just as the leader of Al Qaeda was putting out a message eulogizing one of AQ’s Libyan capos. The signs were there; one of the Marines at the consulate apparently even saw Libyan “security” taking photos of the compound beforehand. What did the State Department do to prepare? Why are Marines only being sent now, after the fact, to beef up security? Why was there no evacuation plan in place? Why, apparently, didn’t Obama attend any of his daily intel briefings this week with the anniversary of 9/11 bearing down? Why did his campaign move more quickly to condemn Romney for his statement than the White House did to condemn the mob activity in Cairo and Benghazi? Why do these questions only seem to get asked of presidents from the party disfavored by the concern trolls we call reporters?

Here’s O chatting with CBS this afternoon by accusing the most famously cautious presidential candidate in recent U.S. history of being a “shoot first, aim later” kind of guy. Question for CBS: Did you ask him any questions about the security failures in Benghazi yesterday? If so, why isn’t his answer to that being circulated as the clip du jour instead of this dial-tone critique of Romney?

Update: This is actually happening, guys. You’re not dreaming. We live in a country where “serious” political media is actually pushing this meme:

Chris Matthews: The tragedy in Benghazi that cost Ambassador Stevens his life has been overshadowed by the desperate reach by Mitt Romney

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Mitt needs an ad out immediately nationwide to hit back at what the marxist accused him of. The press isn’t going to give him the time of day on a response now. They’ve circled the wagons. Where is the vaunted Death Star?

He leaves his duties as President of the United States of America, at a time when another nation has committed an act of war against this nation, the entire region around the incident being incredibly unstable and volatile, refuses to meet with a key ally in the region, and flies away to campaign in Las Vegas.

Criticizing Romney on is way into the airplane is tantamount to the little kid on the play ground who yells “…you stink!” over his shoulder, at another kid on the playground who just beat him at tether ball, as he climbs in his mother’s SUV to go home.

thatsafactjack on September 12, 2012 at 5:27 PM

Thank you for saying it for me.

What the heck do we do when the Commander-in-Chief is AWOL??!!

0bama’s failure to attend a single security briefing in the week before 9/11, plus his 38% attendance rate over the last year (I believe that is the figure quoted in the study), combined with his lying to the American people that he is “too busy” to meet the Pimre Minister of Israel (it’s one’s thing to say you don’t want to meet the PM; it’s another to LIE to the people while still booking a David Letterman Show appearance), plus the fact that he just got in a plane and flew across the country to a fundraiser, leaving the Oval Office EMPTY WHILE OUR EMBASSIES ARE SURROUNDED, constitutes a clear preponderance of evidence that the president is in blatant violation of his Oath of Office, and has abandoned his post.

I believe that we have finally reached the point where the only course of action that honors the Constitution is impeachment by the House of Representatives is in order, if the wishes of the Founders are to be respected.

The sovereign territory of the United States was attacked in coordinated terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 2012, and the President of the United States chose to go to Las Vegas to raise campaign funds. This is beyond dereliction of duty, it’s treasonous.

Obama is a far better campaigner that he is an executive. And he’s not even a very good campaigner because if an incumbent President also has the media shilling for him, he should be a lot further ahead than Obama is.

Many years back the terrorist in Lebanon kidnapped some of our embassy people and killed one of them.At the same time they Kidnapped a few Soviet embassy people.The KGB came to Lebanon rounded up a few of the kidnappers family members cut off a finger of one of them and sent it to the terrorist and assured the terrorist they would receive another body part everyday the Soviet embassy people were held.Less than 4hr. later all the Soviet people were released unharmed .These animals understated one thing only.Brute force.

President Obama abaondoned his post at a time the United States sovereign territory was under coordinated terrorist attacks and flew off to Las Vegas to party with fundraisers. If that’s your concept of leadership at a time when we’re under attack by a sworn enemy, you have no concept of what leadership means.

The majority of the so-called mainstream media is filled with TRAITOROUS LIARS.

Tell it like it is.

PappyD61 on September 12, 2012 at 6:17 PM

OK, I will. Bark, the First Horse, his Admin, and most of the MSM should be tried for treason. When found guilty, they should suffer the same fate at the Rosenburgs. Though, in this case a rope should be used instead….in public.

We have now entered the most dangerous time in our history. Perhaps surpassing the Civil War, because unlike then, if the US falls now, the world could very well enter a new Dark Age. Sad that so few see this.

Not so impressed with a +5 Barry with a +6 Dem load with MOE of 3 at 95% confidence level.

Appeared those polled were morons like you anyway

41% said a guy like Barry is intelligent when he thought there are 57 states, cannot operate a iPhone, thinks “Made in the USA” are 3 words and can’t talk his way of of a paper bag without teleprompter.
And 25% only said Romney is intelligent after he finished MBA/JD, a program with 10 students a year, in 4 years. And was at the top of the class in HBS, and is a successsful businessman worth over 250 millions.

And 39% thought Barry is hard working ,when he never really had a real job, arrived at the Oval Office after 930 AM and would not stay past 4:30PM. no cabinet meeting in 6 months, played 600 hours of golf.
And 32 % only thought someone who worked 70 to 100 hours a week a Bain and the Salt Lake City Olympics was hard working.

OK, I will. Bark, the First Horse, his Admin, and most of the MSM should be tried for treason. When found guilty, they should suffer the same fate at the Rosenburgs. Though, in this case a rope should be used instead….in public.

OK, I will. Bark, the First Horse, his Admin, and most of the MSM should be tried for treason. When found guilty, they should suffer the same fate at the Rosenburgs. Though, in this case a rope should be used instead….in public.

@kirstenpowers10
For those complaining that Romney criticized a statement made before the attacks: the Embassy tweeted they stood by statement AFTER attack.
I don’t like Romney, but he didn’t get it wrong.
You did.
sharrukin on September 12, 2012 at 8:32

PM

The timeline is detailed in a CNN article titled “Romney’s Political Pretzel Over Libya” (Hot Air keeps blocking posts in which I provide the link). Romney was wrong about the timing, and his characterization of “sympathizing” totally inaccurate.

This is a public relations Defcon 5 disaster for the sociopathic punk in chief. And the giveaway that it is: The number of shrill, hysterical trolls that have been sent here to Hot Air to spin furiously that this was somehow a gaffe by Romney.

The left is in a full panic. Their hero has been exposed for all as a do-nothing fraud for literally all the world to see.

Romney was wrong about the timing, and his characterization of “sympathizing” totally inaccurate.

Constantine on September 12, 2012 at 8:42 PM

The point is that this has nothing to do with the embassy “sympathizing” with the mob. It has to do with the embassy refusing to stand up for freedom of speech in the face of a foreign attempt at a heckler’s veto. Instead of denouncing it, the embassy instead said it agreed with the grievance.

President Obama abaondoned his post at a time the United States sovereign territory was under coordinated terrorist attacks and flew off to Las Vegas to party with fundraisers. If that’s your concept of leadership at a time when we’re under attack by a sworn enemy, you have no concept of what leadership means.

Trafalgar on September 12, 2012 at 7:51 PM

It’s not his idea of leadership. ChumpThreads has NO ideas. He’s only parroting the talking points he’s been told to memorize by his handlers at Organizing for Obama.

How can they keep talking about Romney blaming Obama for the embassy statement? Obama is president! The embassy is, in effect, him! Either the Embassy made a statement in line with what Obama thinks, or the Embassy “went rogue”…either speaks poorly of the president.

Earlier today I was outraged at the obamamedia’s corruption and treason in trying to turn a BARACK OBAMA FOREIGN POLICY DISASTER into a hit job on Mitt Romney. But as I’ve clicked around their news sites — ABC, CBS, etc. — and look at the comments, I see that it isn’t selling. Everyone sees Jimmy Carter 2.0 headed to Vegas for a fund-raiser while his ambassador’s body is being flown home, after having been dragged through the streets of Libya by a violent mob. The president is a failure in every way imaginable, and every day more voters see that.

OK, I will. Bark, the First Horse, his Admin, and most of the MSM should be tried for treason. When found guilty, they should suffer the same fate at the Rosenburgs. Though, in this case a rope should be used instead….in public.

Gird your loins, folks. This is the way it’s going to be the closer we get to November: The worse the gaffe is for the sociopath in the White House, the more furiously the state-run media and the Axelrod-directed, talking-point spewing trolls will spin it as a Romney gaffe instead.

No matter what is said in the debates, Obama will be declared to have won them decisively, even if he umms-and-uhhs his way through each one.

Just watched an idiotic, liberal woman yell at Hannity & another conservative guest on Fox News over how she’s so offended that Romney criticized her savior, Obama, & defended our Country in his news conference this morning. This absolutely makes my blood boil! The Obama administration & the lapdog media in this Country, are no less than traitorous.

Romney was correct in his statement today! I pray everyday that he wins this election, & saves the United States of America from it’s liberal, ignorant citizenry & this imbecile currently in office!

The media is overplaying its hand on this deflection of Obama’s dereliction of duty. It will come back to bite them. The sociopath’s criminal neglect here is going to be too much for his acolytes to spin as a positive.
Meanwhile, it’s likely to energize that faction of Mitt voters the left, the media and the Hot Air trolls have been trying to hard to demoralize.

By reading the comments of the lefties on these threads, and by observing the left as a whole, it is apparent to me that there exist totally irreconcilable differences between them and conservatives, or at least this conservative.

Personally, I not only strongly disagree with their beliefs and actions, but I find myself truly loathing them for their lies, their deceit, their disordered thinking, their psychosocial pathology, their envy, their thieving and their need for chaos and destruction.

So the Middle East is on fire, he refuses to sit with our strongest ally in the region (Israel), the press gives him a free pass on a disasterous day (that really has not ended yet), and he jets off for campaign cash to a city he implored other Americans not to visit just a few years ago -which nearly wrecked their economy. Nice going, O! I’d love to be president and be this disasterous all the while towing a legion of fat unemployed and happy folks receiving tax dollars for 3 or more years and a groveling press always there to watch my back. Where do I sign up for the gig?

Wasn’t it the our Hypocrite in Chief who told American citizens we ought not to be going to Vegas when the circumstances aren’t right? He has time for Vegas, but not Netanyahu; it’s okay to go to Vegas while our embassies are under siege; and he runs off to Vegas after throwing fuel on the fire by referring to Egypt as “not an ally.” This guy is an amateur, but the narcissist can’t see the horrible taste he’s leaving in the mouths of Americans…I’ve heard some say that it tastes very similar to bad peanuts.

The White House doesn’t have intel briefings to “skip”; Obama gets a daily intel summary to which he responds with written questions and comments. Bush was the one who had in-person briefings because he didn’t want to do all the reading, and look how well that turned out.

Allah, when you mix in blatant lies like that into a generally accurate post it makes the whole thing seem dubious.